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Waterloo: Four Days that Changed Europe's Destiny

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Description for Waterloo: Four Days that Changed Europe's Destiny Paperback. An epic page-turner about Waterloo, one of the greatest land battles in British history, rich in dramatic human detail and grounded in first class research. Num Pages: 704 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 506.
The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. It ensured the final liberation of Germany and the restoration of the old European monarchies, and it represented one of very few defeats for the glorious French army, most of whose soldiers remained devoted to their Emperor until the very end. Extraordinary though it may seem much about the Battle of Waterloo has remained uncertain, with many major features of the campaign hotly debated. Most histories have depended heavily on the evidence of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349123011
SKU
V9780349123011
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About Tim Clayton
Tim Clayton was educated at Cambridge University where he specialised in the graphic satire of James Gillray. He is the award winning and bestselling author of a number of books on naval and military history, including the winner of the 2008 Mountbatten Literary Award, Tars, and the critically acclaimed Trafalgar. Tim is also an Associate Fellow of the University of ... Read more

Reviews for Waterloo: Four Days that Changed Europe's Destiny
Magnificent and magisterial Literary Review A quite brilliant piece of meticulous historical detective work ... I have no doubt that this book will become a classic Scotland on Sunday Clayton makes the fog of war central to the narrative; we are pitched into the chaos and din of Waterloo ... We experience it as Wellington or Napoleon or an ordinary ... Read more

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